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Apples and Oranges | Poem

 
 
 
APPLES AND ORANGES 

that is not it 
 

it is the water 

that makes the mud that sprouts the seed 

that harvests the apples the wheat the corn 

it is the human hand upon the fevered brow 

it is not proud but it is righteous 

we are all in this together 

either 

everybody eats or nobody eats 
 

- Cezanne's Ghost 

more ghostspeak: 

Ben Franklin  /  Sophocles  /  William Blake